With his very solid screen presence and stunningly flexible body, Tiger Shroff has made a mark in Bollywood as an actor, rather than just being another star son. His stupendous dancing skills and amazing fitness are enough to make women drool over his name. Tiger has proved his mettle as a confident young actor with a successful debut in Sajid Nadiadwalas Heropanti, back in 2014. Known to do his own daredevil stunts and exhibit dance moves like no one else, Tiger has tremendous potential as an all-round actor. Such skills can be attributed to the fact that he is a martial arts expert.
Besides acting in Hindi films, the supremely athletic Tiger Shroff has danced his way through few highly popular music album solos like Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main, Chal Waha Jaate Hai, and more.
Early Life
Tiger Shroff was born on March 2, 1990, in Mumbai. The surprising thing for Bollywood fans is that his birth name was Jai Hemant Shroff and not Tiger Shroff. This name story is pretty similar to that of his bold and bindaas father as well as actor, Jackie Shroff. In fact, Jackie or Jaggu Dada (his local toughie name before he ventured into films) had a birth name that went by Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff. He married his long-time girlfriend, Ayesha Dutt (now Ayesha Shroff), who was a popular model and even acted in a Bollywood movie Teri Baahon Mei.
Tigers lineage indicates a mixed ethnic group. On one hand, he is a part Gujarati (from Jackies father) and part Turkish (from Jackies mother), while on the other hand, he is a part Bengali (from Ayeshas father) and part Belgian (from Ayeshas mother). He is the elder of the two Shroff siblings, with his sister Krishna Shroff, being three years younger to him.
Being an admirer of the famous martial artist, Bruce Lee, Tiger Shroff started training in martial art forms like Wushu and Taekwondo, at the age of four. He completed his schooling from the American School of Bombay and later enrolled for junior college at the Amity University.
Since childhood, Tiger was a huge fan of football and wanted to become a professional football player . However, Tigers destiny had some other plans that eventually made him turn his attention towards acting.
Personal Life
Along with stardom, a Bollywood actor does have to deal with its fair share of baggage in the form of intrusion in private life leading to publicised linkups or rumoured affairs. The same holds true for Tiger Shroff as well. The actor was rumoured to have an affair with the gorgeous Kriti Sanon, his co-star in their debut film, Heropanti. He has also been believed to be in a relationship with actress Disha Patani, even though Tiger has claimed her to be way out of his league.
Movie Career
At one point of time, there were huge speculations surrounding who would be the one to launch Tiger Shroff in Bollywood. While names like Subhash Ghai and Aamir Khan were doing the rounds, it was finally producer Sajid Nadiadwala who along with director Sabbir Khan, handed a great debut for Tiger with Heropanti, opposite the stunningly beautiful actress, Kriti Sanon.
For his portrayal of the character Bablu in his debut movie, Tiger received a bagful of mixed reviews. While almost everyone appreciated his confidence, dancing skills and stunning action sequences, there were doubts raised about his dialogue delivery. Despite all the critics, Heropanti tasted success at the Box Office (over INR 652 million world-wide collections) and gave Tiger Shroff the much needed push for a long career in B-town.
For his debut film, Tiger managed to receive accolades and awards like Filmfare Award for Best Debut Male, Most Promising Newcomer-Male (at Screen Awards), IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year Male, and more. Even his co-star Kriti Sanon won the Best Female Debut award at Filmfare, IIFA and Screen Awards Ceremonies.
Following on the success of his debut film, Tiger Shroff delivered yet another hit with his second movie, Baaghi (2016), also directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. He romanced the effervescent and graceful Shraddha Kapoor in in the movie, which was an out-and-out action flick that proved to be a bigger grosser (over INR 1.27 billion world-wide collections) than Heropanti. His other 2016 release includes A Flying Jatt, directed by Remo D'souza.
Tiger Shroff has also wooed the audiences with his spectacular dancing skills whilst portraying the central character in few music album solos like Chal Wahaa Jaate Hai (from singer Arijit Singh) opposite Kriti Sanon, Zindagi Aa Raha Hoo Main (from singer Aatif Aslam), and Befikra (from Meet Bros) opposite Disha Patani.